Title: Pseudo-Hecataeus, On the Jews: legitimizing the Jewish diasporaAuthor: Bar-Kochva, BezalelPublished: University of California Press, 1997Subjects: JewishStudies | History | Ancient History | JewishStudiesPublisher's Description: Debate over the authenticity of "On the Jews" has persisted for nearly 1,900 years. Bezalel Bar-Kochva attempts to overcome this stalemate in his finely detailed and convincingly argued study that proves the forgery of the book and suggests not only a source for the text, but also a social, politica . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: The biography of ancient Israel: national narratives in the BibleAuthor: Pardes, IlanaPublished: University of California Press, 2000Subjects: JewishStudies | ReligionPublisher's Description: The nation--particularly in Exodus and Numbers--is not an abstract concept but rather a grand character whose history is fleshed out with remarkable literary power. In her innovative exploration of national imagination in the Bible, Pardes highlights the textual manifestations of the metaphor, the m . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: The Gaon of Vilna: the man and his imageAuthor: Etkes, IPublished: University of California Press, 2002Subjects: JewishStudies | Medieval HistoryPublisher's Description: A legendary figure in his own lifetime, Rabbi Eliahu ben Shlomo Zalman (1720-1797) was known as the "Gaon of Vilna." He was the acknowledged master of Talmudic studies in the vibrant intellectual center of Vilna, revered throughout Eastern Europe for his learning and his ability to traverse with eas . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: The life of JudaismAuthor: Goldberg, Harvey EPublished: University of California Press, 2001Subjects: Religion | JewishStudies | JudaismPublisher's Description: Approximately thirteen million people around the world define themselves as Jews, with the majority residing in the United States and Israel. This collection portrays the diversity of Jewish experience as it is practiced and lived in contemporary societies. The book's attention to material culture o . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Jewish memoriesAuthor: Valensi, LucettePublished: University of California Press, 1991Subjects: JewishStudies | Postcolonial StudiesPublisher's Description: Collective memory: a living, breathing gift from the past, less fragmentary than the recollections of any one individual, more personal by far than "history." The authors of Jewish Memories saw in the large numbers of Jews who migrated to France during the twentieth century the chance to retrieve a . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Barcelona and beyond: the Disputation of 1263 and its aftermathAuthor: Chazan, RobertPublished: University of California Press, 1992Subjects: JewishStudies | Medieval History | ReligionPublisher's Description: In late July 1263 a public disputation was convened by King James I of Aragon, pitting Friar Paul Christian against the distinguished rabbi of Gerona, Moses ben Nahman. Organized by leading figures in the Dominican Order to give Friar Paul an opportunity to test his innovative missionizing argumenta . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: A surplus of memory: chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto uprisingAuthor: Zuckerman, Yitzhak 1915-1981Published: University of California Press, 1993Subjects: JewishStudies | European HistoryPublisher's Description: In 1943, against utterly hopeless odds, the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto rose up to defy the Nazi horror machine that had set out to exterminate them. One of the leaders of the Jewish Fighting Organization, which led the uprisings, was Yitzhak Zuckerman, known by his underground pseudonym, Antek. Decad . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Judgement in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist centuryAuthor: Lahav, Pnina 1945-Published: University of California Press, 1997Subjects: JewishStudies | Law | HistoryPublisher's Description: Simon Agranat (1906-1992) was the third chief justice of the Israeli Supreme Court and a founding father of Israeli law. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, and educated at the University of Chicago, Agranat brought U.S. progressivism and constitutionalism to Israeli legal soil. Agranat laid the foundatio . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: The hyena people: Ethiopian Jews in Christian EthiopiaAuthor: Salamon, HagarPublished: University of California Press, 1999Subjects: JewishStudies | Anthropology | African StudiesPublisher's Description: The Jews (Falasha) of northwestern Ethiopia are a unique example of a Jewish group living within an ancient, non-Western, predominantly Christian society. Hagar Salamon presents the first in-depth study of this group, called the "Hyena people" by their non-Jewish neighbors. Based on more than 100 in . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: The Sabra: the creation of the new JewAuthor: Almog, OzPublished: University of California Press, 2000Subjects: JewishStudies | Middle Eastern Studies | SociologyPublisher's Description: The Sabras were the first Israelis - the first generation, born in the 1930s and 1940s, to grow up in the Zionist settlement in Palestine. Socialized and educated in the ethos of the Zionist labor movement and the communal ideals of the kibbutz and moshav, they turned the dream of their pioneer fore . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Strangers at home: Jews in the Italian literary imaginationAuthor: Gunzberg, Lynn MPublished: University of California Press, 1992Subjects: JewishStudies | Literature in TranslationPublisher's Description: Using popular literature as a window on Italian society and its values, Lynn Gunzberg explores the representation of Jews in novels and poetry written by non-Jews from the beginning of the Risorgimento in the early 1800s to the enactment of the Fascist racial laws in 1938. She shows how the literatu . . . [more]Similar Items